Car crashes into Laurel gas station

Police charged the driver with DUI and other vehicular offenses.

May 15, 2014

Laurel firefighters attend to this incident that occurred around midnight Wednesday as Trent L. Hitchens, 22 of Millsboro, was operating a 2014 Ford Mustang south on Shiloh Church Road approaching Laurel Road. Hitchens failed to stop at the posted stop sign and continued in southwesterly direction entering into the parking lot of Sandy Fork General Store located at 12324 West Laurel Road. The Mustang then struck a gas pump in the front of the store before crashing into the front of the business. / Dan Trader photo

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Inside the store after the Mustang crashed through it. / Dan Trader photo

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A Ford Mustang plowed into a gas pump and then the front of a gas station in Laurel early this morning, leaving one man hospitalized and the driver facing drunken driving charges, police say.

Delaware State Police charged Trent L. Hitchens, 24, of Millsboro, with vehicular assault, DUI and four other driving-related offenses. He was arraigned and sent to Sussex Correctional Institution, and his bail was set at $2,800.

The crash happened at about midnight, police say. Hitchens was driving south on Shiloh Church Road toward Route 24 when he failed to stop at a stop sign and drove into Sandy Fork General Store, according to police reports.

A passenger, 29-year-old Raymond C. Davis of Millsboro, was airlifted to Christiana Medical Center, where he remains in stable condition.